News tagged with memory devices

Smartphone training helps people with memory impairment regain independence

The treatment for moderate-to-severe memory impairment could one day include a prescription for a smartphone.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic salmon sandwich is paving the way towards cost-effective DNA memory device

In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in strontium barium manganite

An electric field can displace the cloud of electrons surrounding each atom of a solid. In an effect known as polarization, the cloud centers move away slightly from the positively charged nuclei, which radically ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Light makes write for DNA information-storage device

Researchers have demonstrated a write-once-read-many-times information-storage device, made of DNA embedded with silver nanoparticles, that uses ultraviolet light to encode data.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elpida starts sample shipments of next-generation mobile RAM products

Elpida Memory, the world's third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory manufacturer, today announced that it has begun sample shipments of 4-gigabit Wide IO Mobile RAMTM and 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3).

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vertical silicon nanowires for nonvolatile memory devices

As electronic devices become smaller and more sophisticated, the search for compact nonvolatile memory becomes increasingly important. However, conventional silicon technologies, such as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

IBM to produce Micron's hybrid memory cube in debut of first commercial, 3D chip-making capability

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that Micron will begin production of a new memory device built using the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Elpida develops 1600 Mbps 4-gigabit DDR3 mobile RAM (LPDDR3)

Elpida Memory, Dynamic Random Access Memory ("DRAM") manufacturer, today announced that it has developed an advanced 30nm process 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAMTM (LPDDR3). The new chip can achieve a high-speed data transfer rate ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Elpida develops next-generation mobile DRAM product

Elpida Memory, the third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) manufacturer in the world, today announced that it had developed the industry's first 4-gigabit next-generation mobile memory chips for ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists watch a next-generation ferroelectric memory bit switch in real time

For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team controls thermal fluctuations with spin current

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Muenster, and West Virginia University have demonstrated control of magnetic thermal fluctuations ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Toshiba develops circuit techniques for embedded SRAM operating at 0.5V-1.0V

Toshiba Corporation today announced it has developed circuit techniques for embedded SRAM that operate in a wide supply voltage range, from 0.5V to 1.0V, that effectively contribute to lower power consumption by electronic ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Engineers at Yale develop new type of mechanical memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research engineers at Yale University have succeeded in building a mechanical memory switch that is controlled and then read by lasers. In their paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, the te ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Study measures key property of potential 'spintronic' material

An advanced material that could help bring about next-generation "spintronic" computers has revealed one of its fundamental secrets to a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the National ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast